How to see inside the Spanish-revival home at 2 E. Stewart Road

For years, I’ve admired the house at the corner of Stewart and Garth, with its deep red details, creamy Spanish-revival exterior and have often wondered what’s inside. Well, this link to a Zillow posting lets me see inside. By the way, Zillow values the house at $177,506, but notes estimates in this neighborhood, close to the University of Missouri and nearby valuable homes, makes the estimate difficult to make.

I’m not alone in appreciating this home. In 2006, Columbia Home magazine published a piece by Jim Muench and in 2004, Columbia named the 1929 home to its Notable Properties list, as noted in this May 5, 2004, article in the Columbia Daily Tribune.

Here’s information gleaned from both of those accounts and a list of its ownership:

1929 – Dan and Gona Wilkerson, who had purchased the land two years earlier from Clara and John Stewart, for whom Stewart Road is named

1941 – George Foster

1942 – Evelyn and Smith Turner

1943 – Catherine Tallen, who later married W.E. McClellan

1953 — C. Mitchell Tucker and Helen J. Tucker

1959 – Webster and Irma Wheelock

1971 – David and Marilyn Vernon

1980s – Garland Stephens, who owned the Temple Stephens grocery

1990 – Jennifer and Alan Polniak

2001 – Danna and Keith Vessell

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Journalist. Teacher. Traveler. I'm still driven to find that one last surprising detail, fact or figure, whether it's about frozen food packaging or the history of Columbia, Missouri. I reveal the hidden history, myths and mysteries of CoMo at columbiahistorichomes.com. In 2017, I published a book I wrote with Charles W. Gehrke about his life as an analyst of the moon rocks from the Apollo missions and his founding of ABC Labs, now Eurofins, a global firm. Read more at melonfields.com
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